Is Ayahuasca Becoming a Global Sacrament?

From the Los Angeles afterpanel of Aya: Awakenings: Writer/producer Rak Razam talks about the mythological and cultural aspects of ayahuasca as it “reaches out to embrace the world.” As the deforestation of the Amazon continues at a shocking pace, ayahuasca is being taken up by Westerners and cultivated around the world. Is ayahuasca becoming a global sacrament? Can Westerners come to grips with terms like ‘sacrament’ and the ‘sacred’, and does the ayahausca experience connect us to something within ourselves, or a deeper connection to the planet?

BREAKING CONVENTION IS A BIENNIAL MULTIDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE ON PSYCHEDELIC CONSCIOUSNESS, FEATURING MORE THAN 150 PRESENTERS FROM AROUND THE WORLD.
Europe's largest conference on psychedelic consciousness, Breaking Convention debuted at the University of Kent in 2011 to an audience of 500 delegates. Now approaching its eighth year, and at its new home at the University of Greenwich, it has developed into a truly multi-faceted festival selling nearly a thousand tickets in forty countries and...